Nitrous oxide detection at 5.26 µm with a compound glass antiresonant hollow-core optical fiber
Nitrous oxide detection at 5.26 µm with a compound glass antiresonant hollow-core optical fiber
Laser-based gas sensors utilizing various light-gas interaction phenomena have proved their capacity for detecting different gases. However, achieving reasonable sensitivity, especially in the mid-infrared, is crucial. Improving sensor detectivity usually requires incorporating multipass cells, which increase the light-gas interaction path length at a cost of reduced stability. An unconventional solution comes with the aid of hollow-core fibers. In such a fiber, light is guided inside an air-core which, when filled with the analyte gas can serve as a low-volume and robust absorption cell. Here we report on the use of a borosilicate antiresonant hollow-core fiber for laser-based gas sensing. Due to its unique structure and guidance, this fiber provides low-loss, single-mode transmission >5 µm. The feasibility of using the fiber as a gas cell was verified by detecting nitrous oxide at 5.26 µm with a minimum detection limit of 20 ppbv.
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Jaworski, Piotr
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15 March 2020
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Jaworski, Piotr, Krzempek, Karol, Dudzik, Grzegorz, Sazio, Pier J. and Belardi, Walter
(2020)
Nitrous oxide detection at 5.26 µm with a compound glass antiresonant hollow-core optical fiber.
Optics Letters, 45 (6), .
(doi:10.1364/OL.383861).
Abstract
Laser-based gas sensors utilizing various light-gas interaction phenomena have proved their capacity for detecting different gases. However, achieving reasonable sensitivity, especially in the mid-infrared, is crucial. Improving sensor detectivity usually requires incorporating multipass cells, which increase the light-gas interaction path length at a cost of reduced stability. An unconventional solution comes with the aid of hollow-core fibers. In such a fiber, light is guided inside an air-core which, when filled with the analyte gas can serve as a low-volume and robust absorption cell. Here we report on the use of a borosilicate antiresonant hollow-core fiber for laser-based gas sensing. Due to its unique structure and guidance, this fiber provides low-loss, single-mode transmission >5 µm. The feasibility of using the fiber as a gas cell was verified by detecting nitrous oxide at 5.26 µm with a minimum detection limit of 20 ppbv.
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Nitrous Oxide detection at 5.26 μm with a compound glass Antiresonant Hollow-Core Optical Fiber
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Accepted/In Press date: 30 January 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 3 March 2020
Published date: 15 March 2020
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Politechnika Wroc?awska (049U/0025/19).
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© 2020 Optical Society of America.
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